Pumpkin Carving Edition:
Let me just start off by saying I haven’t carved a pumpkin since I was a kid (and even then I don’t remember how it was done). It all started off with pumpkin picking at Gilcrease Orchard last week.
The only problem was they had very few pumpkins left so the ones we got were teeny tiny. I had this great idea to use markers, googly eyes, and fuzzy wire to make really cute pumpkins. Great idea poorly translated. The visions of us sitting around laughing while coloring/carving our pumpkins, this great happy family were quickly dashed when I realized:
1. The googly eyes wouldn’t stay glued to the pumpkin
2. Carving a 6 inch pumpkin is NOT easy
3. Babies running around crying the whole time mess up the entire happy family vison
My fantastically carved pumpkin (HAHAH)
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Shenzie Bear’s Pumpkin
Daddy’s pumpkin
Imagine a picture here. This would be Heaten’s pumpkin, but he was too busy running around crying to paint one.
And then a week later our oh so creative (used VERY sarcastically) pumpkins look like this:
Do you have to do something special to make them last longer than a week? Maybe leaving them out in the 85+ temperatures wasn’t such a good idea??
October 24th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Ohhh, those wrinkled pumpkins are so sad! Yours looks like it lost its dentures! Hahahah!
I don’t know how to make them last. I stopped carving pumpkins because it’s so irritated to watch them rot so fast. We just went to a bday party where the hostess had the kids do the pipe cleaner/googly eye decorating on realistic looking foam pumpkins. It was really cute.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Those are equal parts funny, sad and gross! Those pumpkins look like they need to be in a nursing home under constant care!
Maybe wait until the night before Halloween to carve? Our giant pupmkin is still uncarved, Mason likes to roll it around the porch.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Lurker commenting….fellow Las Vegan. We went to Gilcrease 2 weeks ago and got some medium sized pumpkins that we haven’t carved yet. We used to put our carved pumpkins in the fridge until Halloween but even so, this’ll only get you 3-5 days. Since Halloween is a holiday this year, I think I’m carving mine right before dark. Well, “carving” might be stretching it since my boy is 2 and he’ll probably just want to scoop the guts out then “fix” the pumpkin by putting them all back in. We’ll see!
October 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I saw some kind of spray for making carved pumpkins last longer at the grocery store earlier in the week. I wish I could remember the name of it. It said that it dries out the inside of the pumpkin to delay bacteria.
Yeah, I know that was so super helpful.
October 24th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
This is hysterical!! Very spooky looking pumpkins though. Yes, wait until right before Halloween to carve. We have not cut into them yet…they are still \beautifully\ decorated with markers. I will carve soon though because I LOVE roasted pumpkin seeds!!
October 26th, 2008 at 4:14 am
OMG
LOL
I can’t imagine no fall season. Ugh. It’s my only sanity in the year.
cute, though!
October 27th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I read an article that said to “cure” pumpkins for two weeks at a temperature less than 80 degrees. That’s why we bought ours earlier in the month so they could sit inside for two weeks. That hardened them up a little. Then we waited until the weather cooled to put them outside. I guess that would be later this week for you guys.
Our pumkin carving lasted about 15 minutes. I just thought it was nice to start the tradition so we can keep it up.
PS. This is a completely dumb PS but one of the words I need to type to submit this comment happens to be my last name!!! (Case)